Zoho CRM: Upload a Product Photo using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-upload-a-product-photo-using-deluge.html

27 September 2021 "joels_crm" ]; info r_CrmPhoto; } } The above should yield something like: /1234567890123_my_beautiful_face.jpg {"code":"SUCCESS","details":{},"message":"photo uploaded successfully","status":"success"} Source(s): ZohoCRM REST API: Upload a Photo Zoho...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Creator / Shopify: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-get-all-active-products.html

12 October 2021 do with some refinement and perhaps if I find a better way to do this, then I'll put it here. But I like this snippet of code albeit a brute force to loop through every active product and list their IDs. How? So here's the function I came up with. It...

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Zoho Deluge: Today, Tomorrow, Day After but Skip Sundayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-today,-tomorrow,-day-after-but-skip-sunday.html

02 November 2021 A very quick article with a snippet of code to get today's date, tomorrow's, and the day after's but it has to skip Sundays. Why? Wanting to create a schedule for availability over the next few days which needs to dynamically change. I am aware of the...

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Zoho Creator/Deluge: UnPredictable exception, Invalid statement foundhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-unpredictable-exception,-invalid-statement-found.html

17 November 2021 will add to this article if I encounter any. This is simply how I fixed this error on this occasion. Consider the following code which loops through some Creator records, then loops through one of the subforms in each record: // select a bunch of...

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Zoho Creator/Deluge: Calculating with Timezone Offsethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-deluge-calculating-with-timezone-offset.html

07 December 2021 of 2 lookup fields to our booking form: one called "Customer's TimeZone" and the other called "Agent TimeZone", then our code needs to take these into account and will look more like the following: // defaults v_AppointmentType = "Initial Consultation";...

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Zoho Deluge: Calculate start and end of Daylight Savings Timehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-calculate-start-and-end-of-daylight-savings-time.html

07 December 2021 when Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Why? Admittedly, most of Zoho apps have this built-in but here's some snippets of code in case you need them. How? I will use this to amend and refine but here's the snippets for the various DSTs around the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoCRM: Template: not being able to edit a text boxhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-template-not-being-able-to-edit-a-text-box.html

25 January 2022 to edit/modify the header on a sales order inventory template. Why? A client raised an issue that they had previously hard-coded the address of their organization into the body of a template (just below the header... they weren't using the header...

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Zoho Deluge: a HTML Entity Decoderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-a-html-entity-decoder.html

27 January 2022 A very quick article to document a HTML Entity decoder in Zoho Creator. Why? Sometimes when receiving data from a third-party, we may receive some strings containing "&" or " " and obviously want to display these as decoded HTML entities. (Zoho if...

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Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 A very quick article on a cool snippet of code, another regular expression, I've been trying out to round up a number or at least to remove the trailing zeros. I could have added this to my Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressions list but I felt...

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Zoho CRM: Using a function for validation rules (or restricting specific picklist options by user profile)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-using-a-function-for-validation-rules.html

11 February 2022 - Lead Status Change", and a description... You will be presented with a deluge IDE editor. I'm putting in the following code: /* ******************************************************************************* Function: fn_Validate_LeadStatusChange...

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Zoho CRM: Schedule a Meeting using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-schedule-a-meeting-using-deluge.html

02 March 2022 on how to build up a JSON request to create a meeting (previously known as Event) in Zoho CRM. Here's a quick snippet of code to remind me. How? Similar to how to create a call or task, but with some variation: // // initialize m_ScheduleMeeting =...

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Zoho Books/Inventory: Trigger a workflow when an invoice has been paidhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-trigger-a-workflow-when-an-invoice-has-been-paid.html

17 August 2022 But this wouldn't work despite being as per the documentation (see sources below). Here's the code for our function; note it is within ZohoBooks and not ZohoInventory (moved) and the connection "zbooks" has a fullaccess scope: // // initialize...

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Zoho CRM / Deluge: Send an email with a CRM Quote using a given CRM templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-send-an-email-with-a-crm-quote-using-a-given-crm-template.html

18 August 2022 part here was to figure out how to convert the CRM record into a PDF using a customer's template. // // initialize (this is code added to a button so should alert user if no email was specified) v_OutputMessage = ""; v_TemplateID = "123456789012345678";...

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ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 containing the files to attach that needs some formatting as well: Note that any IDs used in the snippets of code or screenshots below are made up. the Attachments.csv A data backup or export of the Attachments from ZohoCRM will return to you a CSV of...

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ZohoCRM: Get Organization Business Hours using Deluge/APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-get-organization-business-hours-via-deluge-api.html

28 March 2023 "09:00", "close": "15:00" } } Inserting as a subform on the employee record So now we just need to append the following code which loops through the map / associative array we just created and shove this onto every employee's record. My employee record...

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Zoho Deluge: Proper Case for Nameshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-proper-case-for-names.html

13 July 2023 is intended to work using Zoho Deluge. How? There are a number of combinations that I won't have thought of but the below code sufficed for my current task, common English and some European names: // // set first and last name v_FirstName = "BILLIE-JO";...

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Zoho Creator: Sendmail a list of attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-send-mail-a-list-of-attachments.html

20 July 2023 isn't clearly documented. But there are tips found across the web just not specifically addressing this. How? Here is the code for a test function which downloads 2 files from a public domain, no user wall. The key here which the official documentation...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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ZohoCRM: Using Criteria with Module Record Counthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-using-criteria-with-module-record-count.html

14 November 2023 An example of code using the new API call "Module Record Count" with some criteria. Why? At time of print, I couldn't find an example of how to use this API call with search filters or criteria. Not sure about the rest of you, but I've been using this...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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Zoho Books: Error 7008: There are no contact persons associated with this Invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohobooks-error-7008-there-are-no-contact-persons-associated-with-this-invoice.html

07 March 2024 Instead the below script will show you how to use this API having a few email addresses as the recipients: A sample code snippet: For the below, I have a connection to ZohoBooks from ZohoCreator called "zbooks". It has fullaccess as a scope but I'm sure...

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ZohoCRM: Make either Mobile or Email mandatoryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-make-either-mobile-or-email-mandatory.html

03 October 2024 so a contact email OR phone number is required. Both aren't required but at least one should be. How? We can do this without code and only using ZohoCRM layout rules. Let's take a contact record for demo purposes: If I enter a phone number: If I enter...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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